Yahoo Threatens to Sue Facebook Over Patents

The escalating war between technology companies over intellectual property has had a number of unfortunate consequences, but perhaps none is sadder than the spectacle of an ailing Internet giant using the threat of patent litigation to extract money from an up-and-coming firm. Yet that appears to be Yahoo’s strategy, by demanding that Facebook pay it [...]

Finally. After years of lawsuits and untold tens of millions in legal fees, Apple, the world’s largest technology company, has agreed to cease all current patent litigation against Taiwanese hardware giant HTC, a major ally of Google, which controls Android, the world’s most ubiquitous mobile operating system. This deal, announced late Saturday night, could — I emphasize the word could — augur a new phase in the great digital intellectual property wars that have roiled the technology industry for the last decade.

ByGlen S. Woods:Enzo Biochem, Inc. (ENZ) is an integrated life sciences and biotechnology company divided into three segments: Enzo Clinical Labs, Enzo Life Sciences, and Enzo Therapeutics. But what should catch investors' interest is the possible financial impact from over 10 lawsuits the company has filed over the few years.

Google‘s landmark deal with the U.S. government, which was announced last week and ends a two-year federal investigation, has gotten a lot of attention, primarily for the Federal Trade Commission’s conclusion that Google has not violated antitrust law. But the second component of the pact, in which Google agreed to grant rivals access to certain basic technology patents, is worth scrutiny as well, because it could have important ramifications in the ongoing intellectual property wars that have roiled the technology industry over the last several years.

Google‘s landmark deal with the U.S. government, which was announced last week and ends a two-year federal investigation, has gotten a lot of attention, primarily for the Federal Trade Commission’s conclusion that Google has not violated antitrust law. But the second component of the pact, in which Google agreed to grant rivals access to certain basic technology patents, is worth scrutiny as well, because it could have important ramifications in the ongoing intellectual property wars that have roiled the technology industry over the last several years.

U.S. lawmakers are preparing to act on a pair of bills that aim to crack down on so-called “patent trolls,” which are firms or investment funds that don’t actually build anything, but whose main objective is to extract licensing fees or legal judgments from other companies.

U.S. lawmakers are preparing to act on a pair of bills that aim to crack down on so-called “patent trolls,” which are firms or investment funds that don’t actually build anything, but whose main objective is to extract licensing fees or legal judgments from other companies.

It has been a smoking-hot summer for intellectual property protection in Canada’s oilfield services business.
It has a lot to do with the emergence of new drilling methods such as hydraulic fracturing, which promoted the revival of the oil and gas business in North America and transformed the previously brawny business into a hotbed of research and development.